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While setting up and OpenLDAP server I found my distribution shipped with a couple of schema files, but no equivalent LDIF files. I found ways to convert the …

I've been writing software to work against an OpenLDAP instance, with a highly customized schema. The operators of the existing system only had the schema files …

Note: If you've come here looking to build a root filesystem for 32 bit ARM devices I suspect everything but the build tuple will be the same. The issues that …

I needed to convert a directory full of CPIO files to tar balls. This quick script did the trick for me but didn't preserve the user / group. Running it as root …

I use a Yubikey NEO to store subkeys used for signing and authentication. I started experiencing a weird issue with it. It coincided with me rebuilding my …

While refining some automated setup scripts at some point I upgraded to a testing/unstable version of glibc. When I attempted to get the box back on to the …

I have been recently attempting to cross compile a custom Gentoo profile targeting a Xilinx board as I found their distribution to be unmanageable (PetaLinux as …

I use Gentoo with OpenRC quite a bit both for my personal servers and as a compilation test bed for new software since I can control the dependency versions …

In my my last post, I covered finding logical volumes that were missing from LVM from within a live CD (which is effectively a whole standard environment). …